Welcome to the Martin LabTrinity College Dublin

About

Seamus Martin is the holder of the Smurfit Chair of Medical Genetics (since 1999), within the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has an international reputation in the field of programmed cell death (apoptosis), which plays a key role in the development and function of the immune system, and is one of the most highly cited scientists in the world on this topic. He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2006, to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in 2009 and received The RDS/Irish Times Boyle Medal in 2015, Ireland's highest scientific honor.

Seamus is a PhD graduate of The National University of Ireland (1990) and has held post-doctoral fellowships at University College London, UK, and The University of California, San Diego, USA. He is a co-author of the 11th, 12th and 13th editions of the major Immunology textbook 'Essential Immunology' and is Editor-in-Chief of The FEBS Journal, a leading Life Sciences journal (published every 2 weeks). Prof. Martin is the current President of the European Cell Death Organization (ECDO), an international professional society that organizes major scientific meetings annually.

Professor Martin has received several prestigious national and international awards for his research including:Wellcome Trust International Prize Fellowship (1994-1996) Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship (1996-2001)Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator Awards (2002-2007, 2008-2014; 2015-2020) The BA Charles Darwin Award (2005) The GlaxoSmithKline Award of The Biochemical Society UK (2006) The RDS-Irish Times Boyle Medal (2015), Ireland's highest scientific honor, awarded every 4 years The International Cell Death Society, New York, Career Award (2016)

RDS-Irish Times Boyle Medal Award Ceremony

With James D. Watson at Genetics Symposium, TCD 2008

Interested in working in our group?

We are always interested in recruiting talented and motivated people to the lab.Please contact Seamus (martinsj@tcd.ie) for further details.